We were about to reach the top of the mountain, but the highest point of the mountain was blocked by a huge boulder. The locals had no intention of climbing to the highest peak. The dirt road was a little easier and they descended the mountain from the other side.
A bit like the snow-capped mountains in Tibet. Most of the roads on their side are like this. After all, in their legends, mortals who climb to the highest point of the sacred mountain will have retribution. Therefore, the highest point of all the roads around the mountain is also some distance from the top of the mountain.
Some are several meters high, and some are tens of meters high. This mountain is okay, this huge boulder is firmly fixed on the mountain, as if it is as solid as taking root in the earth.
Chen Xing used rock climbing to find a place to stay and climbed up directly. When we reach the top of the mountain, our 360-degree view opens up in front of us and behind us.
Looking straight at the mountains opposite, birds and clouds surround the green mountains and green waters. The houses at the foot of the mountains are also blocked by the mist on his side. Looking at them looming, it feels like looking at the world from the sky.
Thinking of this, Chen Xing immediately knew what picture he wanted. Secure the camera and get ready to take pictures.
Although the temperature is high now, it is still very cool on the mountain. After taking a few photos, Chen Xing heard the sound of water flowing in the distance. When he followed it, he realized that there was a small spring on the mountain.
It should be that the surrounding fog condensed on the stone, and then gradually gathered and dripped into the pool below, or there was underground water under the mountain itself. Anyway, it looked very clean.
The instructor in the mountaineering training camp said at the beginning that you should not drink water outdoors unless necessary. But first, Chen Xing is not very afraid of outdoor water.
Second, when he was a child, he drank so much spring water and well water. Chen Xing’s father also went to the nearby mountains to fill several buckets of water and brought them back. How come it has become unclean in modern times?
This doesn't make sense. Third, he was thirsty. After climbing the mountain for so long and not bringing anything to eat, my mouth was still a little dry.
So Chen Xing was very surprised and quickly jumped off the big rock and came to the spring. When I got closer, I realized that the water here gushes out from the ground, and the amount of water is relatively large. The overflowing water flows down the mountain along the lush grassland, nourishing the plants and animals on the mountain.
It's been a long time since I've seen such clean, natural water. Chen Xing lowered his head and wanted to drink some of it with his hands.
But before taking action, someone shouted: "Hey! You kid!" The voice came from a dark cave, and then Aunt Zhang walked out of the cave, with a piece of cloth tied on her head. , holding a steamed bun in her hand, this is probably her lunch?
Or afternoon tea? Anyway, it's still early before dinner. When Chen Xing saw it was her, he smiled and said, "Aunt Zhang, we meet again. What are you doing?"
"Eat, I live here."
"Do you live here?" Chen Xing asked dumbly,
"Didn't you build a house under the mountain? It's quite nice. How come you live in a cave?" If the average house living experience in the countryside is calculated as 10, although the castle that Aunt Zhang has built herself over the years looks a bit strange, But it was large in scale and the various rooms were fully functional. It could be called a villa, but how could she live in a cave?
You can just build a small wooden house, at least there will be no draft when you live in it. Moreover, the environment in Jiangxi has high humidity, and the humidity in natural caves on the mountains is even higher. Will you not get sick if you live here all year round?
"It's not fixed yet." She said while biting the steamed bun. He must have been working before, but now he stopped to rest because the sun was too strong, so he kept a piece of cloth tied on his head to absorb sweat.
It's amazing that you are still so motivated at such an old age. Chen Xing looked inside the cave entrance and said, "Can I go inside and have a look?"
"Of course, as long as you want, the world is big and you can go wherever you want."
"You are really free and easy." Chen Xing used his mobile phone to light up the road and took a look inside. The walls inside the cave were indeed very wet, but where the aunt lived, the surrounding walls were separated by wooden boards. A single person with an iron frame The bed is placed on a wooden board and has all the bedding and bedding.
There was even a table with some kimchi jars, Lao Gan Ma and the like, as well as books, lamps, and small batteries... Everything else was fine. If you look closely, the book was in Russian, which made Chen Xing I was so surprised that I couldn't even close my mouth.
Awesome! I am superficial. Chen Xing thought that aunt was just an ordinary wanderer, but from the fact that she could understand Russian, I knew that she was really not an ordinary person.
Despite the fact that the place of residence itself was not that good, Chen Xing was actually a little envious of his aunt.
She took a bowl, scooped water from the spring pool outside, and said, "If you don't mind, use a bowl to drink water. I bought a set of bowls at the beginning, but I haven't used the second one yet." Chen Xing sat on a stone pier with something cushioned and asked, "Auntie, do you know Russian?"
"Students of your generation have been taught English since primary school, but when I was a child, the teachers in school taught Russian. So, if you see people as old as me, it is normal for them to speak Russian. .”
"Yes...really?"
"Yes." To be honest, after Chen Xing has been traveling for so long, this is the first time he has met a Chinese person who can speak Russian.
Still a wandering aunt. Chen Xing drank water. Shanquan fruit does have an inexplicable sweetness, not like sugar, but a sweet and refreshing feeling after swallowing.
Aunt Zhang said: "This water is best for making tea, but it's a pity that it's not easy to boil water here."
"It's okay, it tastes good." By now, Chen Xing was already curious about her origins. What is Aunt Zhang's name, where is she from, what did she do before, and does she have any family members?
Did her family treat her badly? So much so that a decades-old intellectual woman runs away from home?
But after Chen Xing chatted with her for a long time, he realized that everything he had thought before was wrong. Although Chen Xing still doesn't know the specific information and Aunt Zhang didn't say it, Chen Xing knows that she is now 54 years old. After retiring at the age of 45, she left all the money she saved to her two daughters and put down all modern things. runaway.
Irresponsible? No, she had already raised two daughters, and they were both married. Before running away from home, she gave them all her savings so that her married daughters could have a better life.
Her husband has been dead for nearly thirty years. She is not sick, not crazy, she just loves freedom.
Maybe it's just like the Sister Su that Chen Xing met at the beginning. She lived a repressed life as a husband and raised children for too long, and then she thought about living the life she wanted, but it was just more extreme.
Is wandering a dream? To be honest, many people may not be able to accept it, but there is indeed a considerable group of people who like this feeling of wandering.
There are such grannies in Beep Station. She came from the north to the south and visited many places before finally deciding to stay in this small village.
Speaking of this, Aunt Zhang suddenly smiled and said: "People in this village are calling me crazy and dare not approach me, but in fact everyone is very nice and often brings me something. The ingredients are all They sent it." Chen Xing was really touched.
Her way of traveling is different from Chen Xing's. Perhaps this is the difference between poor travel and rich travel. Although he still can't understand their so-called travel concept of suffering the body and releasing the spirit, he still understands a little bit about the wandering bloggers on Bizhan.
With Aunt Zhang's consent, Chen Xing took a group photo with her, and then wrote her story in Bee Nest's travel diary.
Because Aunt Zhang has decided to live here for a long time, she is not afraid of her daughters knowing her location.
I just posted a paragraph and was about to take a sip of spring water. I immediately edited the second paragraph and finished writing the story before going down the mountain.
But when Chen Xing saw a message, his blood pressure immediately soared. Some people say that Aunt Zhang is too ugly and that people from this province are crazy. The fact that Chen Xing knows such a person shows that Chen Xing himself is also a bad character.
In just a few words, he personally attacked two people and darkened the area.
"Fuck!" Chen Xing became angry at that time. He knew that some travelers with a little money looked down on wanderers and thought that wandering while traveling was like begging for a living.
But Chen Xing never thought that someone would be so malicious towards such a spirit. If you are sick, it is none of your business how people travel.
As soon as Chen Xing typed a few words, Aunt Zhang held Chen Xing's hand and shook her head.
"Relax, when you reply to him you have already been affected by him. He is just a stranger you have never seen before and will never see again."
